Plot-holes

[xRuthx]

(07-03-2011 06:25 AM)BravoNine Wrote:  It's not that people accept it, and believe me, lots of people don't accept it, but at this point there's nothing we can do about it, so we deal with it.

I'm a writer myself, and this storyline never made any sense to me, I put up with it because at least the actors still make me care about the characters and there are still moments when watching I am drawn in by their performances. But afterwards, the writing just makes me wanna tear my hair out and go after those writers with a baseball bat.

The most important part of this story they never bothered to explain properly, it's lazy writing at its best, and completely dumb and stupid at its worst.

I like Dr. Who: End of Time, that was a dramatic ending that I loved a lot. I don't try to watch too many times because then I'd just start crying because I miss David Tennant's Doctor.

Anyways, that writing was leagues way better than anything Spooks Series 9 was able to cook up.

For a show that's so focused on realism, Spooks took the most stupid and most unrealistic route. It's shameful. At least with Doctor Who, it can claim the sci-fi route, Spooks can't even do that as it always claims to be so realistic and serious.

Oh I wasn't talking about you in that above statement but rather those people who say things along the lines of 'it doesn't matter that Lucas was badly written because it was well acted' because to me that just gives the writer's the message that we don't care what they do as long as it gets a cheap emotional kick at the time and therefore they can keep on in the same writing vein for series ten (which I really, really, really do not want!)

I understand that lots of people liked TEOT but two of my favourite characters got decimated and it broke my heart alot and it makes the episodes really hard for me to rewatch Good point about the fact that they can get away with it more because of the sci fi element though. Actually, the start of the series nine with Vaughn and the suitcase mumbo jumbo reminded me alot of LOM and A2A except that LOM and A2A worked precisely because of the fantastical, surrealist elements of the plot, while for me seris nine of Spooks didn't because there was no real plot base for that kind of suspension of belief to work.

My brother and I were discussing this the other day... for a show that has made its reputation on being as real as possible, the writer's have made some very odd choices at various points for Spooks. For me though Lucas/John is the silliest thing since Juliet's rather unexplained reappearance in series six. I'm hoping they'll take it back to a more series sevenish vibe for ten.